The Ancient Bruce
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Mozart Piano Concertos from soloist Yeol Eum Son and @scomusic.bsky.social paired boldly with 12-tone Webern, introduced by conductor Andrew Manze voxcarnyx.com/2025/11/03/s...
SCO / Manze
City Halls, Glasgow It was hard not to be impressed by the chutzpah of the programming: two of the finest Mozart Piano Concertos, Nos 21 and 24, with one of the most admired soloists of our time, Y…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Mozart Piano Concertos from soloist Yeol Eum Son and @scomusic.bsky.social paired boldly with 12-tone Webern, introduced by conductor Andrew Manze voxcarnyx.com/2025/11/03/s...
“A very thoughtful programme, with no fewer than three featured soloists, in which everything spoke eloquently to everything else.” BBCSSO, with Ben Glassberg on the podium, Lawrence Power on viola and soprano Claire Booth voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/31/b...
BBC SSO / Glassberg
City Halls, Glasgow The fingerprints of the BBC SSO’s chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth were all over this Thursday matinee programme, but the man himself was not there, having called off unwell. T…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“A very thoughtful programme, with no fewer than three featured soloists, in which everything spoke eloquently to everything else.” BBCSSO, with Ben Glassberg on the podium, Lawrence Power on viola and soprano Claire Booth voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/31/b...
“There could be much more to come from this ensemble”: Nicola Benedetti & Friends at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/30/n...
Nicola Benedetti & Friends
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Some years ago I recall hearing violin showman Maxim Vengerov interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, and Sean Rafferty asking if he was ever irritated by audiences coming …
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October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“There could be much more to come from this ensemble”: Nicola Benedetti & Friends at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/30/n...
“The mission of taking proper singing to Crail and Castlebay is admirably accomplished” @scottishopera.bsky.social on tour voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/10/s...
Scottish Opera: Opera Highlights
Scottish Opera: Opera Highlights Gartmore Village Hall With its community-run pub, The Black Bull, next door, Gartmore Village Hall in the Trossachs has the atmosphere of some of the further-flung …
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October 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“The mission of taking proper singing to Crail and Castlebay is admirably accomplished” @scottishopera.bsky.social on tour voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/10/s...
Home territory tour leads up to launch of international small group album, Violin Cafe. Exclusive interview with violin star, Nicola Benedetti. voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/07/g...
Global café music
Scotland’s violin star, Nicola Benedetti, talks to Keith Bruce as she goes out on the road with a small group from this weekend. Nicola Benedetti has hardly been idle, embracing motherhood and marr…
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October 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Home territory tour leads up to launch of international small group album, Violin Cafe. Exclusive interview with violin star, Nicola Benedetti. voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/07/g...
Orchestras are go! Season-openers from @scomusic.bsky.social and @rsno.bsky.social reviewed voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/06/s...
SCO / Emelyanychev & RSNO / Sondergard
Usher Hall, Edinburgh / Glasgow Royal Concert Hall The Scottish Chamber Orchestra entitled the opening of its new season From Darkness to Light and that idea was just as audible in the concerts tha…
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October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Orchestras are go! Season-openers from @scomusic.bsky.social and @rsno.bsky.social reviewed voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/06/s...
Schubert recast by baritone Roderick Williams for himself and the Carducci Quartet at The Cumnock Tryst voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/06/c...
Cumnock Tryst: Roderick Williams/Carducci Quartet
Trinity Church, Cumnock In Crail Church during the East Neuk Festival earlier this year, young baritone James Newby gave a remarkable performance of Schubert’s first major song cycle Die schone Mul…
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October 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Schubert recast by baritone Roderick Williams for himself and the Carducci Quartet at The Cumnock Tryst voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/06/c...
Ravel, Walton, Clocks and Bears - Oh My! @scottishopera.bsky.social at the Lammermuir Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/09/06/l...
Lammermuir: Scottish Opera Double Bill
St Mary’s, Haddington Perfect though the use of Haddington’s Corn Exchange proved for Britten’s Albert Herring at last year’s Lammermuir Festival, Scottish Opera’s return to St Mary’s for its 2025 …
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September 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Ravel, Walton, Clocks and Bears - Oh My! @scottishopera.bsky.social at the Lammermuir Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/09/06/l...
Double-bill of contrast and parallels from @scottishopera.bsky.social has Haddington premiere at the LammermuirFest tomorrow. Director Jacopo Spirei explains his plan and inspiration. voxcarnyx.com/2025/09/03/o...
Opposites Attract
Director Jacopo Spirei tells KEN WALTON why his new Double Bill production for Scottish Opera, opening at Lammermuir Festival, has all the quirky trappings of a Netflix series. Ready for a do…
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September 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Double-bill of contrast and parallels from @scottishopera.bsky.social has Haddington premiere at the LammermuirFest tomorrow. Director Jacopo Spirei explains his plan and inspiration. voxcarnyx.com/2025/09/03/o...
Thoughts on the staged opera at the Edinburgh International Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/18/e...
EIF: Orpheus and Eurydice / Book of Mountains and Seas
Edinburgh Playhouse / The Lyceum At the March launch of the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival programme, the Festival’s Head of Music, Nik Zekulin, conceded that the opera content was slighter …
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August 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thoughts on the staged opera at the Edinburgh International Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/18/e...
“Mozart readings are now easily escaping the long shadow cast by the SCO’s partnership with Sir Charles Mackerras.” Maxim Emelyanychev’s operas in concert with @scomusic.bsky.social @edintfest.bsky.social voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/12/e...
EIF: La clemenza di Tito
Usher Hall, Edinburgh Although he made a very brief one of opposition to the war in Ukraine at the beginning of March 2022, no-one looks to the SCO’s Russian Principal Conductor for political state…
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August 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“Mozart readings are now easily escaping the long shadow cast by the SCO’s partnership with Sir Charles Mackerras.” Maxim Emelyanychev’s operas in concert with @scomusic.bsky.social @edintfest.bsky.social voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/12/e...
“An utterly involving evening that captured the urgency of La Clemenza di Tito’s speedy composition” @scomusic.bsky.social @edintfest.bsky.social
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La Clemenza di Tito review – Emelyanychev and SCO spark magic with enthralling Mozart
With a luxury cast bringing anguish, believability and vocal perfection to Mozart’s opera of love and divided loyalty, this concert performance was flawless
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August 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“An utterly involving evening that captured the urgency of La Clemenza di Tito’s speedy composition” @scomusic.bsky.social @edintfest.bsky.social
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Getting Physical with Gluck
Once pipped for pop stardom, Iestyn Davies opted instead for success as a classical “yodeller”. The award-winning countertenor stars with Australian circus ensemble Circa in Gluck’s Orpheus and Eur…
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August 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The epic eight-hour choral start to the 78th @edintfest.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
The Veil of the Temple – powerful expressive talents on display in eight-hour choral epic
The opening concert of this year’s Edinburgh international festival saw conductor Sofi Jeannin put in a remarkable shift marshalling combined choirs
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August 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The epic eight-hour choral start to the 78th @edintfest.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
A trawl through the rewarding trails to follow at the 20th East Neuk Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/07/01/e...
East Neuk at 20
At the Opening Concert of this year’s East Neuk Festival, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Principal Guest conductor paused between the first and second movements of Lars-Erik Larsson’s Pastoral Su…
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July 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A trawl through the rewarding trails to follow at the 20th East Neuk Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/07/01/e...
Orkney’s St Magnus Festival begins on Friday voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/17/r...
Remembering Max
The 49th St Magnus Festival takes a moment to remember co-founder Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, but will his piano measure up to the memory? Pianist Mihal Ritivoiu talks to KEN WALTON There are many re…
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June 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Orkney’s St Magnus Festival begins on Friday voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/17/r...
Music for a Summer’s Evening from the Scottish Ensemble and @heloisewerner.bsky.social voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/16/s... V&A Dundee tonight
Scottish Ensemble & Heloise Werner
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow Not for the first time, the idea of a chamber music concert in Glasgow’s grand galleries turned out to be better than the reality because of the challenges of the v…
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June 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Music for a Summer’s Evening from the Scottish Ensemble and @heloisewerner.bsky.social voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/16/s... V&A Dundee tonight
Soprano Heloise Werner joins the Scottish Ensemble on Concerts for a Summer Night voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/05/w...
Werner’s originals
Soprano Heloise Werner talks to Keith Bruce about her collaboration with the Scottish Ensemble – and other plans. There is nothing Scottish about French-British soprano, cellist and composer Helois…
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June 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Soprano Heloise Werner joins the Scottish Ensemble on Concerts for a Summer Night voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/05/w...
“Choir director Suzi Digby’s vigorous conducting style and crystal-clear beat speaks of her long experience” voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/23/p...
Perth Festival: Ora Singers
St John’s Kirk, Perth The most unchanged and regularly used venue in the half century of the Perth Festival of the Arts is also roughly contemporaneous with some of the music often heard there, the…
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May 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“Choir director Suzi Digby’s vigorous conducting style and crystal-clear beat speaks of her long experience” voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/23/p...
Season finale dedicated to former @scomusic.bsky.social first cello David Watkin voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/19/s...
SCO / Emelyanychev
City Halls, Glasgow The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s former principal cellist David Watkin was not just a hugely respected musician but also a man much loved by his colleagues and then by students …
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May 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Season finale dedicated to former @scomusic.bsky.social first cello David Watkin voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/19/s...
A sparkling double-bill from @scottishopera.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
Trial by Jury/A Matter of Misconduct! review – gags and Spads in Scottish Opera’s sparkling double bill
Gilbert and Sullivan’s 150-year-old comic opera gets a lively update, while there is plenty of fun to be had at the expense of politicians in Toby Hessian’s pacy new operetta
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May 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A sparkling double-bill from @scottishopera.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
A visitor to be treasured: Yeol Eum Son on best form in the company of @scomusic.bsky.social and its peerless chorus voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/13/s...
SCO / Emelyanychev
City Halls, Glasgow Visits to Scotland by pianist Yeol Eum Son – who has appeared with the BBC SSO, as an EIF Queen’s Hall recitalist, as a guest soloist in the Usher Hall’s Sunday concert series, …
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May 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A visitor to be treasured: Yeol Eum Son on best form in the company of @scomusic.bsky.social and its peerless chorus voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/13/s...
A Barber, a Figaro, a Tristan and The Great Wave 🌊 Main stage highlights of the coming season @scottishopera.bsky.social voxcarnyx.com/2025/04/30/s...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A Barber, a Figaro, a Tristan and The Great Wave 🌊 Main stage highlights of the coming season @scottishopera.bsky.social voxcarnyx.com/2025/04/30/s...
Shoulder-pads and chicken nuggets in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote @rcsofficial.bsky.social
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Die Zauberflote
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Mozart’s Magic Flute, in its story and subject matter and in the libretto of Emanuel Schikander, is very much a piece of its time, which contemporary stage directors…
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March 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Shoulder-pads and chicken nuggets in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote @rcsofficial.bsky.social
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Musical highlights of a gap year at the Edinburgh International Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/03/13/e...
Edinburgh’s gap year
Funding austerity has shaped this year’s International Festival, writes Keith Bruce Politically-astute EIF director Nicola Benedetti prefaced the media briefing revealing her third Festival program…
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March 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Musical highlights of a gap year at the Edinburgh International Festival voxcarnyx.com/2025/03/13/e...